单词	utilitarian
释义	utilitarianu‧til‧i‧tar‧i‧an /juːˌtɪləˈteəriən $ -ˈter-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES utilitarian clothes EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Along with good light and utilitarian spaces, Chelsea offers comparatively cheap real estate. And the only reason why evolution would bind relationships together is if they served a utilitarian purpose. My father was a carpenter and held a passionate but essentially utilitarian belief in education. Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not, in other words, be our criterion as to whether they survive or not. They were sturdy and wooden; quite beautiful in their uncluttered, utilitarian lines. word sets WORD SETS► Philosophy causation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► approach · Set up under his direction, the Forest Service encouraged a utilitarian approach to the use of public timberlands and watersheds.· But Boston has also taken a utilitarian approach, often going where opportunity knocks in the search for partners. 1formal intended to be useful and practical rather than attractive or comfortable:  ugly utilitarian buildings2based on a belief in utilitarianism → materialistic
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